New findings bring hope for possible Parkinson's disease cure, page 1
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Topic started on 3-11-2009 @ 10:49 AM by Aquarius1
November 03, 2009

Anumantha Kanthasamy, a distinguished professor of biomedical sciences and W. Eugene and Linda R. Lloyd Endowed Chair in Neurotoxicology at the ISU College of Veterinary Medicine, has been working to understand the complex mechanisms of the disease for more than a decade and thinks he has found hope for the cure.

Parkinson's disease sufferers lack a sufficient amount of a brain chemical called dopamine.

Kanthasamy's research shows that there is specific protein that is naturally present in human brains that -- for no known reason -- kills the brain cells that make dopamine.

The cells that are being killed are the ones that produce the needed dopamine.

"We have millions of cells in our brains," said Kanthasamy, "In Parkinson's, about 10,000 of these brain cells die; no one knows why."

Kanthasamy discovered that a novel protein -- known as protein kinase-C (specifically PKCĪ“) - is killing the dopamine-producing cells.

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Anumantha Kanthasamy at Iowa State University has found an essential key to possibly cure Parkinson's disease and are looking for others. Kanthasamy has been working to understand the complex mechanisms of the disease for more than a decade and thinks he has found hope for the cure.
Researchers at Iowa State University have found an essential key to possibly cure Parkinson's disease and are looking for others.


Would be wonderful if they have finally found a cure for this devastating disease that effect so many around the world.


reply posted on 3-11-2009 @ 11:25 AM by Aquarius1
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Sorry to hear your father has this disease, hopefully this new discovery will be available soon for him and others.



reply posted on 3-11-2009 @ 04:53 PM by Aquarius1
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Thanks tothetenthpower, I have read the book you mentioned, of course you are right, one reason that alternative medicine scares them and they are doing everything the can to try and control it.
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